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SIMTI 2026

46° Convegno Nazionale di Studi di Medicina Trasfusionale - Abstract Book (in Italian)

SETS 2026

35° Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Transfusión Sanguínea y Terapia Celular - SETS - Abstract Book (in Spanish), is online (https://www.bloodtransfusion.it/bt/issue/view/81).

Madrid, 4-6 June 2026.

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PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND REGENERATIVE SURGERY

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Plasma pathways for Low and Middle Income countries – needed more than ever: Access to plasma derived medicinal products

Cold platelets, redefined: pathogen reduction without surrendering hemostatic intent: Cold platelets redefined: safer hemostasis

Beyond vital signs: oxygen delivery, oxygen utilization, and the limits of physiologic signal after red cell transfusion: Beyond vital signs: oxygen and physiologic signals after transfusion

Precision Medicine and Patient Blood Management - A Good Pairing: Machine learning, intraoperative transfusion

Appropriate preoperative transfusion requests: an unsolved issue: Limited use of MSBOS and Type & Screen protocols

Towards a value-based approach in hemophilia: indications from the FAR-BENE study: Towards a value-based approach in hemophilia

Transfusion strategies in hemoglobinopathies: what the latest update of Good Practices tell us in the era of new therapeutic advances: Transfusion strategies in hemoglobinopathies today

Thrombophilia testing: when is it appropriate and when is it not? Thrombophilia testing: appropriate indications

Assessing RBC transfusion efficacy in chronic transfusion recipients: advancing precision transfusion medicine: Precision transfusion: RBC efficacy in chronic recipients

Is there no such thing as a free lunch? With Patient Blood Management, maybe there is! Patient Blood Management: a great deal!

Insights and innovations in Blood Transfusion: Insights and innovations in Blood Transfusion

Defining the breakpoints of hybrid blood group alleles

Patients with red cell antibodies: registries improve patient care by increasing patient safety, reducing costs, and enabling health information exchange: Towards health informatics for patients with red cell antibodies

Knowledge, attitudes and practices for blood safety in a worldwide perspective: A lesson from Sub-Saharan Africa

Patient Blood Management in obstetrics: a plea for widespread and effective implementation: PBM in obstetrics

Their health is our wealth: lay perceptions on the health impacts of blood donation: Their health is our wealth

Toward a definition of immunological risk for patients with anti-HLA antibodies before stem cell transplantation: Anti-HLA antibodies and stem cell transplantation

A commentary on the optimal red blood cell transfusion threshold in acute leukemia patients

Iron, iron everywhere and not a transfusion should be had: Intravenous iron therapy for iron deficiency anemia

Acute myocardial infarction and blood transfusion: lessons learned from animal models and clinical studies: Acute myocardial infarction and blood transfusion

Benefits of hypoxic storage of red blood cells: Hypoxic storage of RBCs

A new blood group system: scientific relevance and media resonance

Understanding transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) and its complex pathophysiology

Evans syndrome in the SARS-CoV-2 era: “springing up like mushrooms”

Viable lymphocytes in fresh frozen plasma as a potential source of graft-versus-host disease: risks and solutions

What the COVID-19 pandemic can teach us about inclusive blood donation

Could periodontitis represent a risk for contamination of transfused blood units?

Keep the heart of the World Blood Donor Day beating: a challenge in times of COVID-19

Proceed with care: the “uncommon” serologic weak D phenotypes

Phage display reloaded: on the development of reliable monoclonal antibodies for potential Rh immune globulin production

Evans syndrome and infections: a dangerous cocktail to manage with caution

Blood donation for all: inclusivity is important to the blood supply

If not now, when? The value of the MTP in managing massive bleeding

Why do we overtreat children with immune thrombocytopenia despite existing evidence-based guidelines?

Antibody testing in patients treated with anti-CD38: there is still room for improvement

Pathogen reduction of blood bank components: a matter of swings and roundabouts

Oral iron and blood donation: cui bono?

A nationwide Turkish movement to implement Patient Blood Management

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and Transfusion Medicine: reflections from Italy

Blood transfusion during the COVID-19 outbreak

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“Valar morghulis”: all red cells must die

Blood Transfusion: interesting times ahead

In search of the lost blood

Uncovering occult hepatitis B in blood donations: a tale of two worlds

"The times they are a-changin", ... or maybe not?

Personalised Transfusion Medicine

Patient Blood Management is not about blood transfusion: it is about patients' outcomes

Diversity in a blood bag: application of omics technologies to inform precision transfusion medicine

Intracranial haemorrhage in children and adults with haemophilia A and B: a literature review of the last 20 years

Implementation of a patient blood management programme in obstetrics: let's do it!

Hitchhiker’s guide to the red blood cell storage lesion

The key role of tranexamic acid in Patient Blood Management programmes

Efficacy of platelet-rich plasma as conservative treatment in orthopaedics

Blood safety policy: should cautionary policies be adopted with caution?

Experience with RHD*weak D type 4.0 in the USA

A proposal for a rational transfusion strategy in patients of European and North African descent with weak D type 4.0 and 4.1 phenotypes

Tranexamic acid to prevent post-partum haemorrhage

The use of viscoelastic haemostatic assays in non-cardiac surgical settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The post-operative management of anaemia: more efforts are needed

Non-replacement therapy for haemophilia treatment: fetching the east by the west

Testing direct oral anticoagulants: embedding in structured long-term care

Is it time to re-think a sustainable banking model for the Italian Cord Blood Network?

Diagnosis and management of patients with von Willebrand's disease in Italy: an Expert Meeting Report

Platelet components: is there need or room for quality control assays of storage lesions?

Haemophilia B is clinically less severe than haemophilia A: further evidence

"Non-remunerated donation": a tautology?